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"Well, it was very late. They work very hard," Stabenow told Michael Patrick Shiels on Wednesday on his radio program "Michigan's Big Show." "We were there till 3 or 4 in the morning two different nights, so it was long nights. But great fun, lots of MSU students involved," she said.

She says, "If I dropped a grade, I wasn't allowed to (act), if I didn't behave at school, I wasn't allowed to do it, if I didn't improve with reading, I wasn't allowed to do it.

"It was used like that to get me through it — and I definitely did it."

The striking star says her dyslexia usually doesn't affect her ability to memorize scripts, so long as they're given to her in advance.

Money is coming

The "Game of Thrones" principal cast is set to receive major pay raises after completing contract renegotiations with HBO, the Hollywood Reporter reports.

While the fantasy hit's main actors were signed on for six seasons, they just signed on for a seventh season, receiving pay increases for Seasons 5, which they are currently filming, and 6. The "GOT" stars who signed on for Season 7 and are set to receive raises?

Peter Dinklage, Kit Harington, Lena Headey, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Emilia Clarke are all paid at the highest level, while Maisie Williams, Sophie Turner and Natalie Dormer are set to receive raises as well.

So does that mean their characters survive until the end of the series? Maybe. Maybe not.

Rivers nominated for best actress

Joan Rivers is getting a very special posthumous honor.

Almost two months after the legendary 81-year-old comedian died from complications of throat surgery, Rivers has been nominated for a Women's Image Network Award for hosting the hit E! show "Fashion Police."

Rivers' WIN nomination is for best actress in a comedy series for her performance in last year's "September Issue" episode of "Fashion Police." Her daughter, Melissa Rivers, a producer on the show, is also nominated for producing the "September Issue" episode.

Welles to get a birthday present

Orson Welles' unfinished final film, "The Other Side of the Wind," may be heading for a theatrical release next year.

Welles shot the film-within-a-film between 1970 and 1976 and then worked on it until his death in 1985, leaving behind a 45-minute work print that he had smuggled out of France. John Huston starred as a temperamental film director battling with Hollywood executives to finish a movie — much like Welles did throughout his career. Susan Strasberg, Lilli Palmer, Dennis Hopper and Peter Bogdanovich played supporting roles.

MacFarlane giving out awards

It might seem an unlikely gig for "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane, infamous for his controversial hosting of the 2013 Oscars, but he's set to host another awards show, the Breakthrough Prizes, which award a total of $36 million to scientists in physics, life sciences and mathematics.

It's the second year of the Breakthrough awards. Assisting MacFarlane this year will be presenters such as Kate Beckinsale, Benedict Cumberbatch, Cameron Diaz, Jon Hamm and Eddie Redmayne.

The awards ceremony will be Nov. 9 in California, and will be simulcast on the Discovery and Science channels Nov. 15.

Knight in jail till Monday

Rap music mogul Suge Knight had a traffic warrant reduced to a parking ticket, but may remain in a Las Vegas jail at least through the weekend following his arrest as a fugitive in a California robbery case.

His attorney says a judge ordered the founder of Death Row Records to pay a $190 fine on what had been a June 2013 suspended-license charge in Las Vegas.